Gmail among 183 million passwords exposed in major cyber breach: Here’s how to see if yours was stolen

An investigation by cybersecurity experts has revealed that a massive amount of data,183 million passwords, have been leaked ...
Digital Trends

Passwords are hard and people are lazy, new report shows

Despite ongoing efforts by security researchers and internet titans to push us to use stronger passwords and two-factor authentication to secure online accounts, people are lazy and continue to make ...
Action News Jax

Myspace hack: Passwords and usernames stolen

Myspace may be so 2006, but something that happened three years ago may be coming back to haunt hundreds of millions of users now. That's because the formerly popular social media site was hacked, not ...
WFTV

16B passwords allegedly leaked; What you can do now to secure your information

The investigative team with the independent tech news site Cybernews said they have discovered one of the largest data breaches in history, affecting up to 16 billion user logins. But all may not be ...
PC Gamer

Yikes: Xfinity has suffered a data breach exposing the usernames, hashed passwords and potentially even partial Social Security numbers of 36 million internet subscribers

On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a "recent data security incident" with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone ...
Forbes

How To Make Peace With Your Internet Passwords

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Digital Trends

1.5% of Chrome users’ passwords are known to be compromised, according to Google

1.5% of passwords used in Chrome are unsafe and have been released in data breaches, according to new information from Google. In February, a new feature was introduced to the Google Chrome browser ...
sciencex

Internet scam artists pry usernames and passwords from unwary computer users

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent weeks, Internet scam artists have successfully pried usernames and passwords from unwary computer users. In recent weeks, members of the Stanford community have fallen prey ...
Business Wire

The End of Passwords is Here: Swoop Announces the Launch of the Internet’s Largest Secured Global Authentication Network

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Swoop In Technologies LLC, a next generation internet technology company (www.swoopnow.com), has removed all user friction and frustrations from all types of ...
Wall Street Journal

Username and Password Hell: Why the Internet Can’t Keep You Logged In

My Google password is mXNkQ3/Dy?Pg. (Or it was, anyway, until I published it for everyone to see.) I’ve had to type that nonsensical string so often I memorized the darn thing. It seems like every ...